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hi Friends, Planning to use BlueHost.com for my Ruby on Rails application hosting on their $6.95 per month. Is anyone using them ? What version of ROR do they provide ? What kind of webserver does they provide ? How much RAM ? Can i re-start the web-server if my ROR application demands ? May be the above answers would be best answered by their sales dept. But if anyone is using them, please

hi! with a 4GL background, wanting to learn RoR, what is the fastest learning path i should take? should i go grab a RoR tutorial, and learn Ruby along the way, or start with plain Ruby first? thanks for any inputs!

I''m a beginner. I''ve done the apple tutorial, Agile ROR (the depot app, I stopped after that, a little to advanced with no base knowledge of Ruby), Why''s guide and my copy of Chris Pine''s book today. After Pine, I''m going to buy either the Wrox book or Ruby for Rails book. I did a search and there''s not too much on the Wrox book (Holzner)

Is there a ruby equivalent for the phpinfo() php function that displays all the variables and environment settings ? Thanks, vasu. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all I took a look to several examples of RoR on different web sites, and I found that it is hard to write a class, in RoR, because I do not understand all the codes used on the source code. jsn -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m curious -- how many of us came to Rails from other branches of the OO world -- Java, C# -- and how many of us came from the design or non-OO scripting worlds? Reason I ask is that I''m finding Rails a blast and very productive, but I think one reason is that I already cut my teeth on MVC and ORM during two years of writing apps with J2EE/Struts/Hibernate. And in Javaland, it

Hi, I would like to get started with RoR, since it seems to be a terriffic platform for Webdevelopment. However, I''m unsure what "level" you need to be on in terms of programming to get started? Best regards, Gustav -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am wondering if it would be possible (and safe) to develop online banking or other security-related applications with Ruby on Rails, instead of using J2EE frameworks or .NET? Are there any particular implications needed to write e-banking apps with Rails? Security problems? So... is anyone developing these types of applications with RoR? Any advantage or disadvantage? Personal experiences are

Hi all, I''m asking this question from the standpoint of a developer with almost 10 years experience with Microsoft technologies, mostly doing server side component and database work. So, I''m not very familiar with the java world. Can anyon tell me how/if java development can complement Ruby on Rails development? I''m not interested in how java can duplicate Rails

For expats from other languages, what''s the next best step after the Agile Web Dev book: Rails Recipes or Ruby for Rails? Thanks, -- Austin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi -- My book "Ruby for Rails" is now being released one chapter at a time through the Manning Early Access Program, with the whole book due to appear on May 1. If you''re interested, see http://www.manning.com/books/black (I guess I could have just sent my sig with no body, but anyway :-) David -- David A. Black (dblack@wobblini.net) Ruby Power and Light

Reviews Wanted. I''ve read the tables of contents and haven''t yet made up my mind. Is one book clearly better than the other? Is one clearly full of bugs? Is one so much further ahead that there is no choice? Are they both so incomplete that I should just wait and only cook real food? Do trains still have dining cars? Warren Fred -------------- next part -------------- An

I''m new to Ruby and RoR but excited to learn what I can do with RoR; I have Pickaxe second edition and want to get "Agile Web Development with Rails" but I''m aware that the book was published some while before RoR version 1.0 was released. Has a lot changed since then, and would I therefore be advised to wait for a second edition of AWDwR? Many thanks in advance

I bought the pickaxe about 1 1/2 months ago, and I have been reading through it and learning Ruby in my spare time. I''m about 200 pages into it, and I''m starting to think I don''t need to know all of the in''s and out''s of Ruby to get a good hang on Rails. How much Ruby do I really need to be proficient in Rails? Ruby is a great language, I love it, but

Hi there, I am a newbie and interested in learning Ruby on Rails. I see there are 2 books out there: Ruby for Rails Ruby techniques for Rails developers David A. Black and Agile Web Development with Rails : A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers) Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Andreas Schwarz, and Thomas Fuchs Which one should I get? "Agile Web Development with Rails"

Hi!!!! I''ve tried ROR! it''s fantastic!!! wonderful!!! I WANT LEARN ALL ABOUT IT!!! Do you have some links ( if exists in italian language ), or suggest me some book i can buy?? thx very much -- /\/\ariano Di Felice Java PHP Python programmer with MySQL, PostgreSql, SQLite and Oracle support Linux Platform Developer mariano.difelice@gmail.com Tel. 0735 703735 Cell +39 339

Maybe this should apply to Ruby forums directly, but I''ll try here. I understand the concept of classes and subclasses thanks to the excellent "Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer''s Guide". However, I don''t understand what :: signify in terms of inheritance, parent and child in e.g. ActionController::Base -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Interesting article with lots of comments. Compares J2EE, .Net, PHP (flexies vs. stiffies...): http://shiflett.org/archive/190 Joe -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m new with ROR and am confused about passing parameters to functions. I have a controller called Schedules and that calles a calendar helper for a view called show_cal.rhtml. I need to be able to pass in a specified month and year to get the correct schedule calendar to display in the view. I''m just starting with this and am simply trying to display the parameters

hi all is there eany installation guide that explais how to set up RadRails and how to create a RoR project with eclipse? thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.